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How this snow drought rewrote the record books

Plus, aerial photos from the San Juan Mountains show the season’s dwindling snowpack

May 27 • Mitch Tobin

8 snow stories on my radar

Drones, avalanches, Arctic warfare, shorter winters, irrigation woes, and more.

May 7 • Mitch Tobin

Snowpack update: stark drought graphics

Plus: recent snowpack coverage and remembering my dad, who helped inspire my snow journalism

Apr 22 • Mitch Tobin

No fooling: April 1 is a cruel joke for the West's snowpack

At the water year's midpoint, meager snow cover raises alarms for the months ahead

Apr 1 • Mitch Tobin

Missing snowpack reveals West’s vulnerabilities

This season's snow drought is a chilling harbinger in our warming climate

Mar 25 • Mitch Tobin

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